Eclipse Babel Project Downloads

The Babel team is very pleased to announce the Babel 0.7 Language Packs!

Although the Babel Project is still in incubation, we feel that the language packs are good enough to be consumed by the Eclipse community. Babel is currently setup to accept translation contributions in 34 languages for about 40+ Eclipse projects and sub-projects. Participation for each language and each project may vary. However, for some of the most common projects, the completion percentage is very high. For example, the Eclipse 3.5 project has 6 languages that are 90%+ complete, 23 languages that are 70%+ complete.

The Babel Project is in incubation and has not yet produced full translations for Eclipse Galileo, Ganymede, and Europa. All downloads are provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Foundation Software User Agreement unless otherwise specified.

The Babel project produces weekly language packs from the translations entered using the Translation Tool. You can use the Babel Language Pack Update Sites to download the languages packs, or download the Babel Language Pack Zips from the following links.

Babel Language Packs - built on June 20, 2009

Babel Language Pack Zips
Galileo | Ganymede | Europa
Installation instructions

Babel Update Sites - built on June 20, 2009

Babel Language Pack Update Site for Galileo
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/babel/update-site/galileo

Includes Eclipse SDK 3.5, BIRT 2.5, Datatools 1.7, and more  [Request more projects]

Babel Language Pack Update Site for Ganymede
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/babel/update-site/ganymede

Includes Eclipse SDK 3.4, CDT 5.0, Webtools 3.0, and more  [Request more projects]

Babel Language Pack Update Site for Europa
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/babel/update-site/europa

Includes Eclipse SDK 3.3, BIRT 2.3, and more  [Request more projects]

Before you download and use any of the language packs, please read these known issues:

  1. Not all of the existing Eclipse Foundation Projects are included in Babel yet. If you encounter a project that you would like to help translate, tell that project's leaders.
  2. Not all languages are included in Babel yet. Request an additional language through Bugzilla.


Using the language packs

If the system locale for your operating system is already in the language you want to launch Eclipse in, all you have to do is to launch Eclipse normally and the language packs will be loaded.

If the system locale is in English, and you want to launch Eclipse in another language, you have to launch Eclipse with the -nl command line argument:

eclipse.exe -nl fr

Replace fr with the locale you wish to use. See "Running Eclipse" for more details. Also see the "Teach Your Eclipse to Speak the Local Lingo" Eclipse Corner Article for more examples on how to launch Eclipse in different languages (including bi-directional language like Arabic) and different operating systems (like Linux and Mac OS X).


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